Their comrades, engaged in similar pursuits, not unfrequently wreaked private spite by denouncing them to the Congregation.[128] Van Linden indicated heresies in Osorius, Giovius, Albertus Pighius.

The Jesuit Francesco Torres accused Maes, and threatened Latini.

Sigonius obtained a license for his _History of Bologna_, but could not print it, owing to the delation of secret enemies.

Baronius, when he had finished his Martyrology, found that a cabal had raised insuperable obstacles in the way of its publication.

I have been careful to select only examples of notoriously Catholic authors, men who were in the pay and under the special protection of the Vatican.